From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 05/16/2014 06:46 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:   
   > My native dialect is Hudson Valley.   
   >   
   > If you're one of the Brits to whom "polari" and "parlari" sound exactly   
   > the same, you'll likely to have trouble telling when I pronounce an r at   
   > the end of a syllable.   
   >   
   > Unlike some Americans and Canadians, I pronounce "Don" and "Dawn"   
   > differently.  Also "Aaron" and "Erin."   
   >   
   > I pronounce "Mary," "marry," and "merry" differently.  Some Americans   
   > pronounce two of these the same, others all three the same.   
   >   
   > I pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" differently.   
   >   
      
   You're fortunate in having the vocal equipment and training to speak so   
   clearly, I was brought up in a household that spoke "Ohio mushmouth" and   
   have never been so unable to make myself understood that intensive   
   speech therapy seemed justified.   
      
   In any case, when I'm reading dialog, I want to know what the character   
   is saying, rather than how it's pronounced.  If I wanted to read for   
   sound, I'd be reading poetry rather than prose.  Based on the laborious   
   listening required by the movie "Cloud Atlas", I would never bother   
   reading the novel, even though it doubtless contains a lot more "meat".   
      
   Given the apparent level of "texting" habitual to the younger   
   generations, those of us who are literate (ie, we can read real words   
   having all the specified vowels etc) are likely to be experiencing a   
   "shove" when the "texting generations" begin being (gods forfend) published.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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